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No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.
~ Anton Chekhov Quote

Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
~ Anton Chekhov Quote

When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured.
~ Anton Chekhov Quote

I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky.
~ Anton Chekhov Quote

When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.
~ Anton Chekhov Quote

We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
~ Anton Chekhov Quote

Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
~ Anton Chekhov Quote

Posterity will say as usual: "In the past things were better, the present is worse than the past.
~ Anton Chekhov Quote

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
~ Anton Chekhov Quote

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
~ Anton Chekhov Quote

People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.
~ Anton Chekhov Quote

The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
~ Anton Chekhov Quote

It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.
~ Anton Chekhov Quote

If you cry "Forward," you must make plain in what direction to go.
~ Anton Chekhov Quote

A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does.
~ Anton Chekhov Quote